CVE-2014-8080 Affecting rubygem-psych package, versions <0:2.0.0-22.el7_0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
9.95% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-RUBYGEMPSYCH-2487476
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed3 Nov 2014

Introduced: 3 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-8080  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 rubygem-psych to version 0:2.0.0-22.el7_0 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2014-1912.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygem-psych package and not the rubygem-psych package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before 2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

CVSS Scores

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